| antagonistic reflexes | Reflex's which do not act toward a common purpose, and cannot together traverse the final common path. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| antalgesia | Rarely used term for lowering of a previous elevation in pain threshold. Origin: anti-+ G. Algesis, sense of pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalgic | <medicine> Alleviating pain. A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. Origin: Pref. Anti- + Gr. Pain: cf. F. Antalgique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antalgic gait | A characteristic gait resulting from pain on weightbearing in which the stance phase of gait is shortened on the affected side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antalkaline | Reducing or neutralizing alkalinity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antambulacral | <zoology> Away from the ambulacral region. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antanaclasis | A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc. Origin: Gr.; + a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antaphrodisiac | <medicine> Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. Anything that quells the venereal appetite. Origin: Pref. Anti- + aphrodisiac. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antaphroditic | <medicine> 1. Antaphrodisiac. 2. Antisyphilitic. Origin: Pref. Anti- + Gr. Aphrodite: cf. F. Antaphroditique. An antaphroditic medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antapoplectic | <medicine> Good against apoplexy. A medicine used against apoplexy. Origin: Pref. Anti- + apoplectic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antarctic regions | The continent lying around the south pole and the southern waters of the atlantic, pacific, and indian oceans. It includes the falkland islands dependencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antares | <radiobiology> Laser-target irradiation system (i.e., laser fusion research device) at Los Alamos National Lab, was operational in 1982. (The author would welcome current information.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| antarthritic | <medicine> Counteracting or alleviating gout. A remedy against gout. Origin: Pref. Anti- + arthritic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| antasthenic | 1. Strengthening or invigorating. 2. An agent possessing such qualities. Origin: anti-+ G. Astheneia, weakness (05 Mar 2000) |
| antasthmatic | <medicine> Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. A remedy for asthma. Origin: Pref. Anti- + asthmatic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |